John Mazzarino

Bio

John Mazzarino is a Managing Director of Cherokee, and together with Mr. Darden, is responsible for overseeing the management of Cherokee. After establishing Cherokee’s predecessor with Mr. Darden in 1989, Mr. Mazzarino served as a director of Cherokee Sanford Group and as president of two portfolio companies, Hackney Holdings, Inc., a truck body manufacturer that served as Cherokee’s first brownfield acquisition; and Carolina Ceramics, Inc., a commercial brick manufacturer. Mr. Mazzarino was formerly a manager at Bain & Company, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. Previously, he worked at Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., consulting on policy issues with EPA, HUD, DOE and other federal agencies. He serves on the advisory board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is on the boards of Oak Ranch Children’s Home and Hometown America, an owner of manufactured housing communities. Mr. Mazzarino received a BA from Colgate University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MS in Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he enrolled after initially entering MIT’s PhD program in Operations Research.